On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 4:35 AM Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton, le lun. 12 août 2019 04:30:09 -0400, a ecrit: > > I'm trying to setup a machine to investigate this failure of Crypto++ > > (https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libcrypto%2B%2B&arch=hurd-i386&ver=5.6.4-9&stamp=1565561714&raw=0): > > > > Testing operating system provided nonblocking random number generator... > > FAILED: 100000 generated bytes compressed to 98749 bytes by DEFLATE > > We haven't implemented real collection of hardware entropy, both > /dev/random and /dev/urandom use a pseudo-random generator, so I'm not > surprised that it can be compressed a bit. > > > Some Python package complained it failed to get random numbers. > > > > And GnuTLS failed to initialize due to the random number generator. > > Do you have both /dev/random and /dev/urandom? You may have to re-run > dpkg-reconfigure hurd > to fix them.
/dev/urandom is completely missing on my test rig. Jeff
